Curriculum Vitae Dr. Peter Holtz Office address: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Institute of Education Am Planetarium 4 D-07743 Jena, GERMANY Tel.: +49 3641-9-45094 E-mail: peter.holtz@uni-jena.de Homepage: www.uni-jena.de/zld Education: 2002-2006 Doctoral studies in Psychology, University of Erlangen, Germany Degree: Dr. phil. (~ Ph.D.) in Psychology, magna cum laude Doctoral thesis: Was ist Musik? Subjektive Theorien Musik schaffender Künstler ( What is Music? Subjective Theories of Music Creating Artists ) Doctoral advisor: Prof. Dr. H. Werbik 1997-2002 Studies in Psychology (major), University of Erlangen, Germany Degrees/exams: 1999 Vordiplom in psychology (~ B.S.), 2002 Diplom in psychology (~ M.S. in psychology) 1996-1997 Studies in Philosophy (major), University of Erlangen, Germany Academic Positions: 2011-present Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (~ assistant professor), Institute of Education, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany 2006-2011 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (~ assistant professor), Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria 2002-2004 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (~ research fellow), Department of Psychology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany 2002-2006 Doctoral student, Department of psychology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
Awards: Misumi award 2011 for the paper of the year in the AJSP for: Wagner, W., Kronberger, N., Nagata, M., Sen, R., Holtz, P. & Fores Palacios, F. (2010). An Essentialist Theory of "Hybrids": From Animal Kinds to Ethnic Categories and Race. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13(4), 232-246. Ad-hoc reviewer for: - Journal of Adolescent Health (JAH) - Risk Analysis (RA) - Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior (JTSB) - Papers on Social Representations (PSR) - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) - Journal of Community and Apllied Social Psychology (JCASP) - Journal of Youth and Adolescence (JOYO). Scholarships and Research Grants: 2008-2011 Sensitive Technologies and European Public Ethics, EU FP7, Grant agreement SiS-CT-2008-217815. 2009-2011 "Lebenswelten junger Muslime in Deutschland" ( Life Worlds of young Muslims in Germany ), funded by the German Ministry of the interior 2008-2010 Communicating Synthetic Biology, ELSA-GENAU Project, BMWF- 200.184/0001-II/1a/2008 2002-2004 Dissertation scholarship by the Bavarian fonds for the advancement of science and the arts Publications Peer-reviewed articles Kronberger, N., Holtz, P., Wagner, W. (in press). Consequences of media information uptake and deliberation: Focus groups' symbolic coping with synthetic biology. Public Understanding of Science. Holtz, P., & Appel, M. (2011). Internet Use and Video Gaming Predict Problem Behavior in Early Adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 34(1), 49-58.
Wagner, W., Kronberger, N., Nagata, M., Sen, R., Holtz, P. & Fores Palacios, F. (2010). An Essentialist Theory of "Hybrids": From Animal Kinds to Ethnic Categories and Race. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13(4), 232-246. Holtz, P. & Wagner, W. (2009). Essentialism and Attribution of Monstrosity in Racist Discourse: Right-Wing Internet Postings about Africans and Jews. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 19(6), 411-425. Kronberger, N., Holtz, P., Strasser, E., Kerbe, W., & Wagner, W. (2009). From the Lab via the Media to the Broader Public. Systems and Synthetic Biology, 3, 19-26. Holtz, P. (2009). What's Your Music? Subjective Theories of Music Creating Artists. Musicae Scientiae, 13(2), 207-230. Wagner, W., Holtz, P., & Kashima, Y. (2009). Constructing and Deconstructing Essence in Social Groups: Identity Projects, Sterotyping, and Racism. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 39(3), 363-383. Monographs Holtz, P. (2006). Was ist Musik? Subjektive Theorien Musik schaffender Künstler. [What is Music? Subjective Theories of Music Creating Artists]. Norderstedt: Books on Demand. Book contributions Holtz, P. & Wagner, W. (in press). Dehumanization, Infrahumanization, and Naturalization. In: D. J. Christie (ed): Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology. Wagner, W., Holtz, P., & Kashima, Y. (in press). Constructing and Deconstructing Essence in Social Groups: Identity Projects, Sterotyping, and Racism. In: Drogosz, M., Bilewicz, M., & Kofta, M. (eds): Poza stereotypy: Dehumanizacja i esencjalizm w postrzeganiu grup społecznych [Beyond Stereotypes: Dehumanization and Essentialism in Group Perception]. Warszaw: WNS. Holtz, P. (2008). Künstlerische Konzepte Musik schaffender Künstler. [Artistic Concepts of Music Creating Artists]. In: Allesch, C. G. & Schwarzbauer, M. (eds): Die Kultur und die Künste [Culture and the Arts], 119-130. Heidelberg: Winter. Holtz, P. (2005). Subjective theories of music creating artists. In: The Proceedings of the First European Conference on the Developmental Psychology of Music in Jyväskylä, Finnland, 2005, 263-267, online publication: https://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/musiikki/projektit/ecdpm2005/proceedings.pdf (retrieved Oct. 6, 2010).
Presentations at scientific conferences: 7 th Conference of the Media Psychology Division of the DGPs in Bremen, Germany, 2011 Paper presentation: Holtz, P.: Analyzing internet forums: exploring a new data source for social scientific research. ISPP 34th Annual Scientific Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, 2011 Paper presentation: Holtz, P. & Wagner, W.: German Muslim identities in context: results from an analysis of nine German language online forums and five focus groups. 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bremen, 2010 Paper presentation: Holtz, P. & Wagner: Religiöser Fundamentalismus 2.0: Ergebnisse einer Analyse von über 6500 Postings in neun vorwiegend von jungen Muslimen genutzten deutschsprachigen Internetforen BPS Social Psychology Conference 2010 Paper presentation: Holtz, P., Wagner, W.: Fundamentalist and secular identities and responses to discrimination: German Muslims and the Swiss minaret ban 2009 35th 4S Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 2010 Paper presentation: Holtz, P., Kronberger, N., Wagner, W.: Synthetic Biology from the lab to the public mind: Laypeople's reactions to information on an unfamiliar emerging technology. 10th Conference on Social Representations (CIRS) in Tunis, Tunisia, 2010 Paper presentation: Holtz, P. & Wagner, W.: Transgressing naturalized identities within society: representing ethnically mixed children and the "fallacy" of essence. ISPP 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Dublin, Ireland, 2009 Paper presentation: Holtz, P. & Wagner, W., & Raudsepp, M.: Ethnic "Hybrids" and Parents' Essences: Ethnically Mixed Children can be Judged More Negatively than Out-Group Members. XXIX International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in Berlin, Germany, 2008 Poster: Holtz, P. & Wagner, W.: Creating Monstrosity: How Neo-Nazi Propaganda Uses Essentialist Categorizations for the Defamation of Blacks and Jews. 13th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) in Stockholm, Schweden, 2007 Paper presentation: Teaching Cyberethics: Motivational Moderators of the Acquisition of General and Domain Specific Moral Competence. SRCD (Society for Research in Child Development) Biennial Meeting in Boston, MA., 2007 Poster: Holtz, P. & Reiner, I.: Self-Representations in Pre-ADolescence: Associations to Behavior Problems in an American and German Sample. 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Nürnberg, 2006 Poster: Holtz, P., Reiner, I., Faust, M. & Blatt, S.: Repräsentationen des Selbst im frühen Jugendalter: Zusammenhänge zu Verhaltensproblenen in einer amerikanischen und deutschen Stichprobe
1st European Conference on the Developmental Psychology of Music, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2005 Paper presentation: Subjective Theories of Music Creating Artists. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie in Salzburg, Österreich, 2005 Paper presentation: Künstlerische Konzepte Musik schaffender Künstler. Teaching Experience: At Linz University: - Advanced Course Qualitative Methods (for doctoral students) ; winter 2010/11 - Course Social Psychology (together with Prof. W. Wagner); winter 2010/2011 - Study group Psychology & Society (together with Dr. E. Selenko and Dr. R. Langer); summer 2010 and winter 2010/2011 - Course Qualitative Methods ; summer 2009 and 2010; winter 2009/10 - Social skills training Talking, Speaking, and Arguing (together with W. Kerbe); summer 2009 and 2010, winter 2009/10 and 2010/11 - Lecture Work and Organizational Psychology ; summer 2006, 2007, and 2008 - Lecture Social Consequences of the Information Technology ; winter 2006/07, 2007/08, and 2008/09 - Course Organizational Psychology ; summer 2006, 2007, and 2008 - Course Work Psychology ; winter 2006/07, 2007/08, and 2008/09 At Erlangen University: - Course Music Psychology ; winter 2005/06 - Tutorial Introduction to Psychology ; summer 2005 and 2006 - Tutorial Cognitive Psychology ; winter 2004/05 and 2005/06